Lead Engineer - AI-Native Email App
Bjak · Remote · United States ·
COMPENSATION
€•• – ••k
Listed on the employer's job board (Ashby)
- Lead Engineer role
- Fully remote worldwide
- AI-native email app
- Hands-on leadership
- English required
Doit is building AI-powered tools to help users manage spending, saving, and investing more effectively. As a Lead Engineer, you will take technical ownership of complex products, balancing architecture decisions with hands-on implementation.
You will guide engineering initiatives from concept to production, ensuring high standards for code quality, reliability, and scalability. This position requires close collaboration with product, design, and AI teams in a fully distributed environment.
What you'll do
- Lead technical design and execution of major engineering initiatives
- Design scalable systems across backend, frontend, APIs, and infrastructure
- Remain hands-on through coding, prototyping, and debugging
- Make architecture decisions balancing speed, scalability, and reliability
- Mentor engineers and strengthen technical capability across the team
- Review technical designs and provide actionable feedback to peers
- Monitor production systems and resolve root causes of incidents
- Improve engineering tooling and automation to increase team velocity
What you'll need
- Strong software engineering background with production system experience
- Deep expertise in backend, frontend, distributed systems, or cloud infrastructure
- Proven experience leading major engineering projects or teams
- Strong system design skills for complex or high-scale systems
- Willingness to remain hands-on with coding and code reviews
- Ability to explain complex technical decisions clearly to others
- Strong product sense connecting tech decisions to business outcomes
- Comfortable working with ambiguity and taking full ownership
How you'll work
- Fully remote position with global hiring
- Collaboration across multiple countries and time zones
- English is the main working language
- Fast-moving international team environment
Hiring process
- Online assessment or practical task
- Technical interview
- CEO or final round interview
- Process aims to complete within one week for strong candidates